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First-Ever vox poetica Poetry Contest! Today’s Words 8th Runner-up:
New Year’s Kiss
By Kenneth Karrer
Just before we kissed
I felt the
Fragrance of your face.
A fireworked field of radiance held
Us there
At something less than
Distance …
That fundamental magic
That makes a tear drop
Hold its shape,
Kept us there suspended
On the very edge of momentary
Chance.
I wonder what a photograph of that
Would show?
Such fine moments do not merely
Come
And
Go.
They are fantastic, cosmic, ticks
That glow,
Like memories of
Stars
Awaiting
Resolution!
The moment before a kiss becomes a kiss.
Kenneth Karrer’s most recent poem to appear at vox poetica was You Were Something Else, published as part of Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone.
Lovely poem.
Wow! I love “At something less than / Distance …” You capture this so well.
Wonderful!
Delicious.